The R. A. Fisher Lectureship is a very high recognition of achievement and scholarship in statistical science

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, and recognizes the highly significant impact of statistical methods on scientific investigations. The R. A. Fisher Lecture is given at the Joint Statistical Meetings

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 in North America and is subsequently published in a statistics journal

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. The lecturer receives a plaque and a cash award of US$1000. The award was established in 1963 by the North America

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n Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) in recognition of the British statistician Ronald Aylmer Fisher. It is given every year if an eligible and worthy nominee is found (which one was in all but 5 years up to 2008).

R. A. Fisher Lecturers

• 1964 Maurice Bartlett
• 1965 Oscar Kempthorne
  Oscar Kempthorne
  Oscar Kempthorne was a statistician and geneticist known for his research on randomization-analysis and the design of experiments, which had wide influence on research in agriculture, genetics, and other areas of science...
  
  
• 1967 John Tukey
  John Tukey
  John Wilder Tukey ForMemRS was an American statistician.- Biography :Tukey was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1915, and obtained a B.A. in 1936 and M.Sc. in 1937, in chemistry, from Brown University, before moving to Princeton University where he received a Ph.D...
  
  
• 1968 Leo Goodman
• 1970 Leonard Savage
• 1971 Cuthbert Daniel
• 1972 William G. Cochran
  William Gemmell Cochran
  William Gemmell Cochran was a prominent statistician; he was born in Scotland but spent most of his life in the United States....
  
  
• 1973 Jerome Cornfield
  Jerome Cornfield
  Jerome Cornfield was a US statistician. He is best known for his work in biostatistics, but his early work was in economic statistics and he also contributed to the theory of Bayesian inference. He also played a role in the early development of input-output analysis and linear programming.He was...
  
  
• 1974 George E. P. Box
  George E. P. Box
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• 1975 Herman Chernoff
  Herman Chernoff
  Herman Chernoff is an American applied mathematician, statistician and physicist formerly a professor at MIT and currently working at Harvard University.-Education:* Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, 1948. Brown University....
  
  
• 1976 George Alfred Barnard
  George Alfred Barnard
  George Alfred Barnard was a British statistician known particularly for his work on the foundations of statistics and on quality control.-Biography:...
  
  
• 1977 R. C. Bose
• 1978 William Kruskal
  William Kruskal
  William Henry Kruskal was an American mathematician and statistician. He is best known for having formulated the Kruskal–Wallis one-way analysis of variance , a widely-used nonparametric statistical method.Kruskal was born in New York City to a successful fur wholesaler...
  
  
• 1979 C. R. Rao
  C. R. Rao
  Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao FRS known as C R Rao is an Indian statistician. He is currently professor emeritus at Penn State University and Research Professor at the University at Buffalo. Rao has been honored by numerous colloquia, honorary degrees, and festschrifts and was awarded the US...
  
  
• 1982 F. J. Anscombe
• 1983 I. R. Savage
• 1985 Theodore W. Anderson
  Theodore Wilbur Anderson
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• 1986 David H. Blackwell
• 1987 Frederick Mosteller
• 1988 Erich Leo Lehmann
  Erich Leo Lehmann
  Erich Leo Lehmann was an American statistician, who contributed to statistical and nonparametric hypothesis testing...
  
  
• 1989 David R. Cox
• 1990 Donald A. S. Fraser
• 1991 David Brillinger
• 1992 Paul Meier
  Paul Meier (statistician)
  Paul Meier was a statistician who promoted the use of randomized trials in medicine. He is also known for introducing, with Edward L. Kaplan, the Kaplan–Meier estimator, a tool for measuring how many patients survive a medical treatment.-External links:...
  
  
• 1993 Herbert Robbins
  Herbert Robbins
  Herbert Ellis Robbins was an American mathematician and statistician who did research in topology, measure theory, statistics, and a variety of other fields. He was the co-author, with Richard Courant, of What is Mathematics?, a popularization that is still in print. The Robbins lemma, used in...
  
  
• 1994 Elizabeth A. Thompson
• 1995 Norman Breslow
  Norman Breslow
  Norman E. Breslow is an American statistician and medical researcher.He and co-author Nicholas Day developed and popularized the use of case-control matched sample research designs, in the two-volume work Statistical Methods in Cancer Research.-References:* 1980, Statistical Methods in Cancer...
  
  
• 1996 Bradley Efron
  Bradley Efron
  Bradley Efron is an American statistician best known for proposing the bootstrap resampling technique, which has had a major impact in the field of statistics and virtually every area of statistical application...
  
  
• 1997 Colin Mallows
• 1998 Arthur P. Dempster
  Arthur P. Dempster
  Arthur Pentland Dempster is a Professor Emeritus in the Harvard University Department of Statistics. He was one of four faculty when the department was founded in 1957.He was a Putnam Fellow in 1951. He obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1956...
  
  
• 1999 Jack Kalbfleisch
• 2000 Ingram Olkin
  Ingram Olkin
  Ingram Olkin is a professor emeritus and chair of statistics and education at Stanford University and the Stanford University School of Education...
  
  
• 2001 J. O. Berger
• 2002 Raymond Carroll
• 2003 Adrian F. M. Smith
• 2004 Donald Rubin
  Donald Rubin
  Donald Bruce Rubin is the John L. Loeb Professor of Statistics at Harvard University. He was hired by Harvard in 1984, and served as chair of the department from 1985-1994....
  
  
• 2005 R. Dennis Cook
• 2006 Terence Speed
• 2007 Marvin Zelen
• 2008 Ross L. Prentice
• 2009 Noel Cressie
• 2010 Bruce Lindsay

Other lecture series named after R. A. Fisher

Two other series of lectures are also named after R. A. Fisher:

• The Fisher Memorial Lecture on an application of mathematics to biology, usually given in the UK, first given in 1964
• The Sir Ronald Fisher Lecture on genetics
  Genetics
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  , evolutionary biology or statistics, given at the University of Adelaide
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  , Australia
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  , first given in 1990